Progress
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
The common thread of progress
Textile abundance has underpinned the modern world
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
The dishwasher dream
How domestic technology saved us time
We are not so far from the Victorians
There is no cause for despair
The revolution will not be tweeted
Gal Beckerman’s history of how high-speed communication prevents social change
Old TV keeps us grounded
What started as nostalgic escapism became much more
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
